Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Cichlidae > Hemichromis > Hemichromis fasciatus

Hemichromis fasciatus (Banded jewelfish; Cichlid; Five-spot cichlid)

Synonyms: Hemichromis desguezii; Hemichromis leiguardii
Language: Adangme; Afrikaans; Arabic; Carolinian; Chokwe; Ewe; Fang; Finnish; French; Ga; Hausa; Igbo; Ijo; Jula; Kanuri; Kim; Krio; Lwena; M; Mandarin Chinese; Mòoré; Nupe; Other; Polish; Wolof; Yoruba; Zande

Wikipedia Abstract

Hemichromis fasciatus, also called the banded jewelfish and five-spot cichlid, is a species of fish in the cichlid family. It is distributed throughout West Africa. It can also be found in the Nile Basin, Lake Chad, and the upper Zambezi. It can reach a length of 26.5 centimetres (10.4 in).
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Infraspecies

Hemichromis fasciatus var. fasciatus
Hemichromis fasciatus var. violacea

Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Foret Classee de la Mare Aux Hippopotames Bird Reserve IV 37906 Burkina Faso  
Omo Strict Natural Reserve Forest Reserve 328086 Nigeria  
Parc National du Niokolo-Koba National Park II 2046878 Senegal  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Ceryle rudis (Pied Kingfisher)[4]
Corythornis cristatus cristatus (Malachite Kingfisher)[4]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Comparative analysis of trophic structure and interactions of two tropical lagoons, M.C. Villanueva, P. Lalèyè, J.-J. Albaret, R. Laë, L. Tito de Morais and J. Moreau, Ecological Modelling, Vol. 197, Issues 3-4 , 25 August 2006, P. 461-477
♦ 4Food niche segregation between the Malachite Kingfisher, Alcedo cristata, and the Pied Kingfisher, Ceryle rudis, at Lake Nokoué, Bénin, Roland Libois and Arnaud Laudelout, Ostrich 2004, 75(1&2): 32–38
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0